Provérbios 2

1 My son, if you will receive my words,

and store up my commandments within you,

2 so as to turn your ear to wisdom,

and apply your heart to understanding;

3 yes, if you call out for discernment,

and lift up your voice for understanding;

4 if you seek her as silver,

and search for her as for hidden treasures;

5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh,

and find the knowledge of God.*2:5 The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "אֱלֹהִ֑ים" (Elohim).

6 For Yahweh gives wisdom.

Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright.

He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

8 that he may guard the paths of justice,

and preserve the way of his saints.

9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice,

equity and every good path.

10 For wisdom will enter into your heart.

Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

11 Discretion will watch over you.

Understanding will keep you,

12 to deliver you from the way of evil,

from the men who speak perverse things,

13 who forsake the paths of uprightness,

to walk in the ways of darkness,

14 who rejoice to do evil,

and delight in the perverseness of evil,

15 who are crooked in their ways,

and wayward in their paths,

16 to deliver you from the strange woman,

even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,

17 who forsakes the friend of her youth,

and forgets the covenant of her God;

18 for her house leads down to death,

her paths to the departed spirits.

19 None who go to her return again,

neither do they attain to the paths of life.

20 Therefore walk in the way of good men,

and keep the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright will dwell in the land.

The perfect will remain in it.

22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land.

The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Ngā Huanga o te Whakaaronui

1 E tāku tama, ki te tango koe i āku kupu,

ki te huna i āku whakahau ki roto ki a koe,

2 ā, ka tahuri tōu taringa ki te whakaaro nui,

ka anga anō tōu ngākau ki te mātauranga;

3 āe rā, ki te mea ka kārangarangatia e koe te mātauranga,

ā, ka puaki tōu reo ki te ngākau mōhio;

4 ki te rapua hoki ia e koe ānō he hiriwa,

ki te kimihia ānō he taonga huna –

5 ko reira koe mātau ai ki te wehi o Ihowā,

kite ai i te mōhio ki te Atua.

6 Mā Ihowā hoki e hōmai te whakaaro nui;

nō tōna māngai te mātauranga me te ngākau mōhio.

7 E rongoātia ana e ia te whakaaro nui mā te hunga tika;

he whakangungu rākau ia mō te hunga he tapatahi nei te haere,

8 kia tiakina ai e ia ngā ara o te whakawā,

kia tohungia ai te ara o tāna hunga tapu.

9 Ko reira koe mōhio ai ki te tika, ki te whakawā, ki te mea anō e rite ana,

āe rā, ki ngā ara pai katoa.

10 Ka uru hoki te whakaaro nui ki roto ki tōu ngākau,

ā, ka reka te mātauranga ki tōu wairua;

11 ka ai te ngārahu pai hei tiaki i a koe,

te ngākau mōhio hei pupuri i a koe;

12 hei kukume mai i a koe i te ara o te kino,

i te tangata e puta kē ana āna kōrero;

13 i te hunga e whakarere nei i ngā ara o te tika,

e haere ana i ngā ara o te pōuri;

14 e koa ana, i a rātou e mahi ana i te kino,

e hari ana ki ngā tikanga parori kē o te kino;

15 he ara kōpikopiko ō rātou,

he whanokē rātou i ō rātou huarahi;

16 hei whakaora i a koe i te wahine tauhou,

i te wahine tauhou e whakapati nei ki āna kupu.

17 Kua whakarērea nei e ia te hoa o tōna tamāhinetanga,

kua wareware ki te kawenata o tōna Atua.

18 E heke atu ana hoki tōna whare ki te mate,

ōna ara ki ngā tūpāpaku.

19 Ko te hunga katoa e haere atu ana ki a ia e kore e hoki mai;

e kore anō e mau i a rātou ngā ara o te ora.

20 Ā, ka haere koe i ngā ara o ngā tāngata pai,

ka mau anō ki ngā ara o te hunga tika.

21 Ka noho hoki te hunga tika ki te whenua;

ka mau te hunga ngākau tapatahi ki reira.

22 Ka hātepea atu ia te hunga kino i runga i te whenua,

ka hūtia atu i reira te hunga he kōpeka tā rātou mahi.